December2012

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Nico | 27 | London, England

"It is also your responsibility to help your parents understand, or at the very least to give them the time to come to terms with your sexuality. You can't ask them to do in a minute, in an hour or in a day. It may have taken you years to come to terms with your sexuality."

"It’s funny what you remember and what you seem to forget about really important moments in your life. I don’t actually remember his name or what he looked like but I remember his stubble scratching me and tickling my lip. I remember his aftershave."

"Coming out to everyone at school was something that I didn’t really have a choice about, in the end. I was at an eighteenth birthday party and ended up having an encounter outside with one of the boys in my year."

"Very occasionally I went home with men but was always paranoid that someone would find out. More often I just used to go into dark corners - there were a lot because of the blackout - or into disused street air raid shelters."